bbc.com August 24, 2019

Nasa said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space

Nasa is reported to be investigating a claim that an astronaut accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse from the International Space Station, in what may be the first allegation of a crime committed in space.

wired.com August 22, 2019

Here Come the Space Tugs, Ready to Tidy Up Earth's Orbits

For the low, low price of $2.25 million, SpaceX will put your small satellite on a big Falcon 9 rocket and shoot it to orbit with a bunch of similarly small satellites.

newsweek.com August 20, 2019

Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems

In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.

arstechnica.com August 21, 2019

One could fly to Mars in this spacious habitat and not go crazy

On Wednesday, Sierra Nevada Corporation—the company that makes aerospace equipment, not beer—showed off its proposed in-space habitat for the first time. The inflatable habitat is, first and foremost, large.

blog.timescale.com August 21, 2019

Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL

Today we are announcing the distributed version of TimescaleDB, which is currently in private beta (public version slated for later this year).

arstechnica.com August 20, 2019

With Artemis, NASA at risk of repeating Apollo mistakes, scientist warns

In the nearly five months that have passed since Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to return humans to the Moon by 2024, the space agency has made significant progress toward that goal.

technologyreview.com August 23, 2019

Quantum radar has been demonstrated for the first time

One of the advantages of the quantum revolution is the ability to sense the world in a new way. The general idea is to use the special properties of quantum mechanics to make measurements or produce images that are otherwise impossible. Much of this work is done with photons.

theguardian.com August 24, 2019

Nasa astronaut 'accessed ex-partner's bank account from space station'

Nasa is investigating a claim that an astronaut accessed the bank account of her estranged partner while she was living on the International Space Station (ISS). The case appears to be the first allegation of a crime committed in low Earth orbit, according to the New York Times.